Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-18
General l1eps.
DOMESTIC.

There was 100000 fire at st. Peter,
Mimi, Saturday night
Rev. DR.. McCosh has retired from the
presidency of Princeton college.
Fire at Memphis has destroyed $4,000
bales of cotton causing "a loss of more
than $3.50, 900.
The American merchant steel manu-
facturers have formed combination "for
mutual benefit in prices
Horse car stables, 157 horses and other
property were burned in Brooklyn, n.
Y, Monday night; loss, 100000.
Mrs. Sarah Gowdey. aged eighty years,
who was present at the birth of Gen.
Grant and was his nurse in infancy, died
at Portsmouth, Ohio, on Monday.
Jesse Pomeroy. who is serving a life
sentence in the Charleston Mass prison,
tried to blow up the building the other
night by causing an explosion of gas.
The Detroit Evening journal announ-
ces that Don NJ. Dickinson has signified
his willingness to accept the post-ofiice
PORTFOLIO if his confirmation is assured.
Effort is being made to form an Eastern
and Western Base Ball league out of
the present National league and Ameri-
can association, owing to the expense of
travelling.
Rev. Hugh o. Pentecost, who wanted
to be mayor of Newark, preached in that
city Sunday, indorsing the course of the
anarchists, and declared that they had
been murdered
Mr.. Howe, of Woman's bank notoriety,
has tried to swindle the people of Chicago.
Her tactics have been exposed, however,
and she will leave the city, if she has not
already done so.
Several of the Dominion and Allan line
steamers will make Baltimore their winter
port, leaving Portland, it is alleged, from
failure to make satisfactory terms with
the Grand Trunk
Gustaye j. Schneider, found in dying
condition on a Philadelphia street and
supposed to be former resident of New
York, was shown by the coroner's in
quest to have been murdered.
The faculty of the University of Penn
sylvania have forbidden the students
smoking in the buildings or on the
grounds of the institution. The student
smokers threaten a rebellion.
The Boston sympathizers with Lingg
and the rest of his murderous associates
held 'memorial' meeting in New Era
hall Friday night, and eulogized the men
who instigated the attack on the Chicago
police "a "martyrs.
Secretary Lamar has written Land
Commissioner Sparks sharp letter re-
plying to a communication from him rela-
tive to the adjustment of the Chicago. st.
Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad
land grants, and informing him, in con-
clusion, that either he or the secretary
must forthwith retire from the depart
ment.
\ band of over $50 negroes attacked an
immigrant family camping out in the
country near jacksonville, Fla, the
other day. They shot the father dead
and took to the woods with the girls.
\ rescuing party was at once organized
and sent out and the girls were rescued
before the negroes had time to matreat
them. The excitement at the outbreak
is intense.
\ wholesale Jail delivery took place at
Tahlequah. |. r.. Thursday night, and -
of the worst desperadoes in the South
west secured their liberty. \ hole large
enough for man to pass was cut through
the wall. The two guards in the interior
were bound and gagged and the cells
broken open. Among the prisoners who
escaped are five murderers, three horse
thieves and seven lesser criminals.
The funeral of the five anarchists in
Chicago on Sunday was big affair.
Thousands of men. women and children
joined in the procession. The mayor of
the city consented to the procession on
condition that no arms or weapons
should be carried nor banners displayed,
and that the music, if any, should con-
Sist of dirges. There was no disturbance,
and the order of the mayor was observed.
August Schmidt, German workman
at Toledo, o., was eXtolling Spies and
other anarchists before his fellow work
men Monday, when they became enraged,
and, procuring rope, put it around his
neck and strung him up to lamp post.
He struggled, but could not get away.
When they let him down he shouted,
"Hoch die anarchie." This further en-
ragged the crowd, and they again pulled
him up and held him until he was black
in the face. He was then let down and
resuscitated, but, repeating his anarchs-
tic utterances, was forced into cask and
rolled down a steep embankment. His
collar bone was dislocated in the struggle
and he was otherwise injured. He was
taken from the cask and cared for by Il
few of his friends.